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...foreign oil becomes costlier, U.S. oil companies will step up their search for domestic sources. Already they are moving their derricks farther and farther offshore to tap deposits under the ocean floor. One of the hottest exploration areas stretches along the Atlantic Coast from Maine to North Carolina, ranging from 50 miles to 300 miles offshore. Oilmen estimate that that area of the continental shelf may hold between 122 billion and 169 billion bbl. in potential petroleum resources-roughly 25 to 30 times as much as the U.S. consumes yearly. But a classic battle is shaping up between oilmen...
...years back, her first professional singing and dancing. With plans for further film musicals already under way, it seems she is fully embarked on a second career at the ripe age of 22. As the stage manager, she does not yet consistently manage the stage, except for some fancy tap dancing. She is most effective when she has to portray awkwardness, shyness, winsome young love. How much of this is performance and how much mere exploitation of her rather endearing presence? Twiggy would not be the first performer to build a movie career on presence alone...
Facing the prospect of directing his first American superstar, Barbra Streisand, in a film biography of Sarah Bernhardt, Russell says he finds all his movies equally nerve racking: "There is really no difference between nuns with no clothes on and tap dancers in goggles. It is all material...
Chomsky said yesterday that although he suspected that his telephone had been tapped since "early 1968," he had become aware only recently of a statute which would allow him to take action against the alleged tap...
Scarcely two years ago, at the height of the excitement over the huge oil strike on Alaska's North Slope, as many as 2,000 men swarmed around two dozen drilling rigs, preparing to tap the largest known oil reservoir in North America. This week, as the sun drops out of the northern sky, not to rise again for almost two months, fewer than 200 men are left, and only two rigs are rumbling in the icy darkness...